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Saturday, June 24, 2006

Vladimir Tytla Celebration- Part 2

After the dance scene in "The Sultan's Birthday", Bill Tytla's most celebrated work at Terry is the animation of the demon cat in the Mighty Mouse cartoon "The Green Line".He also animated the feline that listens his advices.Tytla is at his best here and the animation is the best one ever appeared in a Paul Terry cartoon.Do let me know your thoughts!

UPDATE: Milton Knight told me that this animation is probably a collaboration by Tytla and Carlo Vinci, another of the most talented animators to work at Terry.The work of this unsung master will be highlighted pretty soon on this blog!

Dear Duck,Not the first time an animation scholar was mistaken. Anyone familiar with Vinci's work for Terry's, MGM or Hanna-Barbera will spot this sequence immediately. At this point, Vinci had been doing very fine work for the Terry studio for nearly ten years.A lot of people like to assume that Tytla was the only animator at this studio capable of great work in the Hollywood tradition. This is a chauvinistic assumption, and also dead wrong. The scenes with the evil cat conversing with the "normal" one were probably laid out by Tytla, but were actually animated by someone who had been working at the studio for years before; and the harem girl dance originating in THE SULTAN'S BIRTHDAY was actually (despit my doubts the other day) a collaboration between Tytla and Vinci.